[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1456947497248{background-color: #efeeed !important;}”][vc_column][vcex_image_flexslider direction_nav=”false” control_nav=”false” control_thumbs=”false” img_size=”full” caption=”true” caption_position=”centerRight” image_ids=”153″][vc_text_separator title=”PARTICIPATING IS EASY:” style=”shadow” css=”.vc_custom_1457361550428{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1457361585072{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 60px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 60px !important;}”]
- Type a personal message to the Femmes de Virunga in the message field.
- Upload a suitable photo (optional). For example a picture of your personal moment of indulgence with Femmes de Virunga chocolate. Show us your creative side!
- Share the page link in the social media network of your choice. For every additional message supports the work of the #femmesdevirunga.
[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”79″ img_size=”250×250″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle” css=”.vc_custom_1456964655576{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}”][vc_text_separator title=”THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING!” color=”chino” css=”.vc_custom_1457357236720{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1457361616451{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;padding-left: 60px !important;}”]This campaign runs until March 24th, 2016. We will then print all messages and pictures in a book and send it to Hilde, our project leader in Eastern Congo. She will hand it over to the Femmes de Virunga farmer ladies. Of course, we will publish photos of this event in our social media channels. The winners of the Original Beans chocolate gourmet bundles will be informed via e-mail on March 30th, 2016.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1456963885957{padding-right: 60px !important;padding-left: 50px !important;}”][contact-form-7 id=”18″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1457081824789{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=”THE PATH TOWARDS MORE AUTONOMY” color=”chino” css=”.vc_custom_1457361697043{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1457081853313{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1457431907033{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;padding-left: 60px !important;}”]Being a woman in Eastern Congo is extremely hard since dependency, exploitation and even rape determine their daily life. Through Original Beans’ Femmes de Virunga project, named after the chocolate, they gain the opportunity to free themselves from traditional dependency patterns and realize their entrepreneurial potential. By providing cacao training and seedlings, as well as literacy and leadership courses, we give them a future in the cacao sector. This empowerment-project has already helped hundreds of disadvantaged women to improve their living conditions significantly.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1456947377182{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;border-right-style: none !important;border-top-style: none !important;border-bottom-style: none !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”14″ alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1456956365324{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1457081879559{background-color: #efeeed !important;}”][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=”WOMEN EMPOWERMENT THROUGH CACAO” color=”chino” css=”.vc_custom_1457361744188{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1456923953678{margin-top: 50px !important;margin-right: 50px !important;margin-bottom: 50px !important;margin-left: 60px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1457366970484{margin-top: 60px !important;margin-right: 50px !important;margin-bottom: 50px !important;margin-left: 60px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;}”]Our project aim is to establish a culturally supported economic position for women in the Congolese cacao sector. For this purpose, Original Beans – together with the local non-profit-organization IDAD – trains women farmers to become quality managers of sustainably sourced Virunga cacao.
For example, the women learn in trainings how to cultivate their cacao gardens in a more economical way, and how to best harvest and process the acquired fine flavour cacao. In tastings, they get to know how to assess the quality of cacao. A local radio program, by and for women, offers more tips and exchange opportunities around the topic of cacao. Additional literacy and leadership trainings spark the women’s entrepreneurial interests, as our women portraits show.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1457432837993{margin-top: 60px !important;margin-right: 60px !important;margin-bottom: 50px !important;margin-left: 50px !important;}”]The Virunga women use their newly acquired skills to attend to the local Original Beans tree nurseries autonomously. Every participating woman receives cacao seedlings to grow in her own garden – a valuable good that strengthens the position of females in society and at the same time contributes to the reforestation of the biologically diverse Virunga National Park. We stay true to our mission: One bar : One tree.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1457366893423{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-right: 150px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”98″ alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1457366915264{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-left: 100px !important;}”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1457466762350{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-right: 100px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;padding-left: 60px !important;}”]
[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1457466775323{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 100px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 60px !important;}”]
Dark organic milk chocolate (70g) made from Congo’s first fine flavour cacao. Creamy notes of cappuccino and roasted nuts. Directly supports the female cacao farmers around Virunga National Park.
Imported to Africa by colonists, this Amazon-rooted cacao shows like no other how crucial soil, climate and farming practices are for intense flavour.
It grows in Eastern Congo, in the buffer zone around Virunga National Park – home to the world’s last mountain gorillas. At its boundaries, millions of people, mainly smallholder farmers, try to make a living – despite all the turmoil in the region.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”PURCHASE NOW ” style=”flat” color=”primary” align=”center” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fshop.originalbeans.com%2Fen%2Ffemmes-de-virunga-55-bar.html|title:Purchase%20now|target:%20_blank” css=”.vc_custom_1457466800061{padding-right: 100px !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
Recent Comments